Dante in the long nineteenth century : nationality, identity, and appropriation / edited by Aida Audeh and Nick Havely.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Audeh, Aida.

Havely, N. R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation--History--19th century.

Dante Alighieri.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Appreciation--History--19th century.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Influence--History--19th century.

Intellectual life--History--19th century.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These essays provides an account of Dante's reception in a range of media-visual art, literature, theatre, cinema, and music-from the late 18th century through to the early 20th and explores various appropriations and interpretations of his works and persona during the era of modernization in Europe, the USA, and beyond.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; I. Risorgimento: Italian Nationality and Identity; 1. 'Founders of Italian Literature': Dante, Petrarch, and National Identity in Ugo Foscolo; 2. Politics vs. Literature: The Myth of Dante and the Italian National Identity; 3. Dante and the Creation of the poeta vate in Nineteenth-Century Italy; 4. Reading Dante in Nineteenth-Century Italy; 5. The Holy Stone where Dante Sat: Memory and Oblivion; 6. Politics and Performance: Gustavo Modena's dantate; II. National Interests and Appropriations

7. Dufau's La Mort d'Ugolin: Dante, Nationalism, and French Art, c.18008. Dante and Fabre D'Olivet: The Pilgrim Romeo and the Construction of an Occitan; 9. Dante and British Romantic Women Writers: Writing the Nation, Defining National Culture; 10. Dante's Beatrice and Victorian Gender Ideology; III. Emerging Powers; 11. Dante's Long Road to the German Library: Literary Reception from Early Romanticism Until the Late Nineteenth Century; 12. Charles Eliot Norton and the Rationale for American Dante Studies; 13. Emerson, Dante, and American Nationalism

14. Dante Abolitionist and Nationalist in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Cordelia RayIV. Recovering/Redefining Identities; 15. Lord Charlemont's Dante and Irish Culture: A Whig Interpretation of Dante at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century; 16. Dante and the Bengali Renaissance; 17. The Reception of Dante in Turkey through the Long Nineteenth Century; Epilogue: Dante and Early Italian Cinema: The 1911 Milano-Films Inferno and Italian Nationalism; Appendix: Dante and Nineteenth-Century Music: Listing and Selective Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 19, 2012).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613681157

0-19-163985-0

1-280-77038-4

OCLC:

922971125